K - Versuch über Franz Kafka

Traditonal Criticism works under the assumption that there is one such idea or aspect which is correct, which was probably 'meant' by the author himself when he wrote the text and which must ultimately be found in order to understand the text and to do this author justice.
If these discussions don´t occur with Kafka´s texts in spite of so many different opinions propounded, it must be the texts themselves that forbid us to assume and to prove the sole true aspect: these stories and novel fragments apparently admit hundreds of interpretations, each of them possible, none of them true.

Kafka´s work should be taken not as a proving ground for endless production of possible solutions in the traditional way but as a challenge to find an adequate approach not to its truth - but to its reality.

Gaier, Ulrich, " 'Chorus of Lies' On Interpreting Kafka", in German Life and Letters 22, 1969 S. 283-296